Serhiy Batyuk

I graduated from the ATEP department in 1978 (ATEP-195 group). After graduation he worked at the Kyiv Institute of Automation, later – in private companies, including companies “Logicon” (Ukraine) and “ControlTech” (Czech Republic), now I work in the company “Klinkmann-Ukraine” (Finland) as a technical director. My responsibility is to provide technical support for the distribution of global brands: programmable logic controllers from Unitronics (Israel) and industrial SCADA software from Wonderware (USA). He taught at the Department of ATEP, created a laboratory “Software and hardware automation” (laboratory of programmable logic controllers). Now I work at the department as a part-time teacher. I teach the disciplines “Engineering calculations in automation”, “Programming in automatic control system”, “Automation of technological processes and productions”. I was brought to the department by my father, who worked all his professional life as a teacher of the department. I love my profession and not a day in my life did I regret that I chose this profession at one time. What seems to me significant and important in our specialty? The answer is the pragmatism of our specialty. What is such pragmatism? The answer is in a constant optimal combination of classics and modernity. This is reflected in the title of our bachelor’s degree – “Automation and computer-integrated technologies.”

Automation of technological plants is an engineering classic. The basis of our specialty is the automation of thermal energy processes. Heat and mass transfer processes are the basis of all industrial technological processes and productions. Automation is a prerequisite for efficient and trouble-free operation of thermal power units.

Automation of technological plants is software and hardware complex, which is a tool of the operator-technologist in the management of plants. Automation transforms plants into the automated technological complex (ATC) which is operated by the person or functions desolately. Modern ATC is a computer-integrated technology – a cyberphysical system that uses modern computer technology (programming, Internet, databases). ATC as a computer-integrated technology is the technological modernity of our specialty.

ATC as a cyberphysical system is the core of the fourth industrial revolution, which is powerfully unfolding before our eyes in post-industrial countries. Fully automated (ie even automatic and robotic) “smart” enterprise – the goal of Industrial Revolution 4.0. The tools of this revolution today are computerization, programming, and the internalization of management.

Industrial Revolution 4.0 is identified by industry and the German government (= EU) as a top priority for technological modernization and technological innovation. In line with this trend is the initiative of the President of the United States “Computer Science for AllInitiative”, which provides for school and institutional study of programming as the fourth basic human communication ability (in addition to the three available: listening, speaking, reading).

Teachers, researchers and senior students of ATEP actively theoretically and practically support the ideas of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Computer Science for AllInitiative and purposefully promote their introduction into the educational process of the department at the level of lectures, laboratory work and computer workshops.

Our specialty is always not young or old, but mature, as it optimally combines classic automation and modern control technologies. Automation will be needed everywhere and always, because without it, technological objects cannot function. Automation is the control of a technological process by a person. Yesterday, the control tools, ie automation, were regulators and relays. Today – computers and controllers, programming and network technology. Tomorrow, perhaps, – expert systems, works and machine vision. But it will always be automation with the use of modern tools, which you, if you graduate from the department of ATEP, will be professionally owned.

The pragmatism of choosing our specialty is that: first, our specialists will always find a job at any enterprise where there are thermal energy processes; secondly, this work will always be interesting, as it will always be modern in its tools; thirdly, our specialists will be able to work successfully in any other and most modern industries, as they theoretically and practically have modern computer technology.

I sincerely, responsibly and actively invite smart and mobile boys and girls, as well as their loving, patient and advanced parents to study for a bachelor’s degree in “Automation and Computer-Integrated Technologies” of the Department of ATEP TEF NTUU “KPI”!